They were a pervasive presence.

Human security means protecting vital freedoms. It means protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and situations and building on their strengths and aspirations.

Road congestion is a pervasive phenomenon.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

The economic and social costs become pervasive.

Achieving human security means not only ensuring physical safety and security but also building on and going beyond the Millennium Development Goals by undertaking efforts to address the full range of critical and pervasive threats facing people.

Narcotics remain a major and pervasive problem in Afghanistan.

I was born to a family where education was pervasive.

The related reports of the Secretary General2 stressed that the security situation continued to be of paramount concern, with violence on the increase and the pervasive drug economy posing a significant threat to the long term security and development of Afghanistan.

Information also highlights a pervasive pattern of rape and sexual violence.

In her address to the Security Council on resolution 1325 (2000), she had highlighted the continuing situation in Darfur as a glaring instance of the pervasive violations women might suffer during conflict.

Homelessness resulting from military home demolitions, particularly in Gaza, was also pervasive.

Increased terrorist attacks and violence by Al Qaida and the Taliban, coupled with a pervasive drug economy, have created alarming challenges that seriously undermine the security and thus hamper the reconstruction of the country.

I mean, this is a very pervasive this is part of our DNA.

We had just had a military coup, and soldiers were pervasive in our society.

Mr. Laurin (Canada) (spoke in French) The Security Council has an important role to play in facilitating and enforcing international efforts to control the pervasive impact of the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons.

The biases, whether intentional or otherwise, are pervasive, and so are the misleading mental images.

I'm going to show you just a few examples of how pervasive this phenomena is.

The biases, whether intentional or otherwise, are pervasive, and so are the misleading mental images.

This really seems like a cost effective, scalable solution to a problem that's really pervasive.

It is time for conversion of the pervasive culture of war into a culture of peace.

But also like other delegations, we are most concerned about the current situation in Côte d'Ivoire the deteriorating security climate, uncontrolled militias, the continued abuse of human rights, the serious judicial vacuum in the zone of confidence and the pervasive sense of impunity.

(f) The pervasive problem of sexual violence, including in places of detention and in camps for internally displaced persons

They include limited employee skills and commitment, a dominance of informal practices, minimal emphasis on effectiveness, and pervasive corruption.

Thirdly, there is a pervasive tendency by institutions and Governments to accord marginal importance to youth organizations and issues.

Services are now so pervasive throughout the economy that it may be more appropriate not to take a sectoral approach

Violence against women, which is a fundamental violation of women's human rights, remains pervasive in all parts of the world.

I am pleased that today the Council is convinced that pervasive poverty is truly a main root cause of unrest in Haiti.

Pervasive poverty makes it inevitable that the struggle for access to economic resources and opportunities must be a distinct feature of African politics.

As we noted last year during the open debate on this topic, sexual and gender based violence remains alarmingly pervasive in conflict affected areas.

These could be political injustice, the denial of human rights, a brutish life entrenched in pervasive poverty or something else yet to be uncovered.

But it seems to be that the USA's sins, compared to those of many previous empires, are of a more moderate, if more pervasive, kind.

However, violence has been a pervasive element in the country's politics and supporters of different parties frequently clash with each other during rallies and demonstrations.

We need to look at ways of creating serendipity, of making translation pervasive, and we need to find ways to embrace and celebrate these bridge figures.

But it's a technology so pervasive, so invisible, that we, for a long time, forgot to take it into account when we talked about human evolution.

This idea is so pervasive that games are a waste of time that we will come to regret that I hear it literally everywhere I go.

He actually understood something about a theme that we've been discussing all week. It's the role of the audience in an era of pervasive electronic communications.

In other countries, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia and Nepal, pervasive human rights abuses or generalized violence ran the risk of causing new or renewed displacement.

However, it notes that violence is a pervasive feature of politics and the police reportedly use torture, beatings and other forms of abuse while interrogating suspects.

Its objective is to protect people from critical and pervasive threats to human life and to their livelihood and dignity and thus to enhance human fulfilment.

So pervasive has been the role of ICTs that there would be little hope of achieving the MDGs without significant upgrading of ICTs in developing countries.

This mindset is also pervasive in Western governments, industry, business schools, and the media. None of these institutions in the West is ready for Asia s re emergence.

Second, the fact that they have left home without seeking a traveller's certificate subjects them to various sanctions owing to the pervasive State control over people's movements.

What the climate crisis has revealed to us is a secondary, more insidious and more pervasive crisis, which is the crisis of agency, which is what to do.

In Myanmar, there were reports of systemic and pervasive human rights violations against women and ethnic and religious minorities, as well as forced labour and poor prison conditions.